Car Camping at Lyman Run State Park [PA Wilds]

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While on a recent vacation to the Pennsylvania Wilds, Kirk briefly explains the camp set-up and various accouterments.

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hey what's up Turtles its Creek here with blackout outdoors Stoney and I are on vacation right now and we wanted to start shooting videos to sort of bring you along and share and share our experiences of what we're doing and what we're going to be doing on this trip of ours this is day 3 at Lyman Run State Park which is in northern Pennsylvania in the Pennsylvania wilds as this whole group I think it's almost 11 12 13 counties public land spans effectually called the PA wilds which is all this big clump of green which I'm sort of circling circling right here and we're up here we're up here and this is the New York border and we're literally maybe as the crow flies 20 miles from the New York state border so this is very really very remote country up here there's hardly any populations there's not a lot of towns the towns are up here are small this is that we're a lot of natural natural gas drilling and extraction and all that's happening right now in Pennsylvania maybe you've seen it in the news all that that's happening all around us up here but that's part of why we want to come up here is just to explore and see this area of Pennsylvania that gets a lot of attention in one way but I've never personally spent a lot of time up here in experience for myself but I like several I mean run state park this is day 3 and camp 2 nights you've seen where we are on the map we've just finished cooking breakfast a little on maybe an hour ago shoot a video shoot a video I'm just gonna show you what's on the table kind of got messed kind of got camp sort of messy right now but cook bacon and eggs cast iron cast irons is a great great piece of gear to have got shelvings pots pans all that stuff for cooking on open flame a cast iron is the way to go this was actually an anniversary present over my parents the wedding anniversary my mother had no longer used for it she gave to me and I use it you know using my camp use if I have a gas stove in a place I'm living but cast iron is frickin awesome to cook with on an open flame have some just plates and dirty plate here we need to clean up with Tupperware I like to use a crushable kentuc

container this can double as a plea this can be used as a bowl nice piece of gear to have maybe using some of this for water filling off these lips for water container just some literature we guy at the park map or the park offices to some extra literature we're really close to cherry springs - if it's picking it up now but cherry Springs State Park which is a dark sky park for the east guys East Coast standards go it's very very dark anyone's who've been on the west coast have been sort of high desert with really thin not allowed to commit atmosphere understand what the stars really mean but for the East Coast there's a lot of humidity and it's in stargazing it's not it's not as just easy to walk out on a clear night on a moonless night to see the milky way tearing across the sky like I've seen so many times and you know Northern California and Arizona but nonetheless we're close to that so it's really cool spot it gets really dark here I have my um my stove right here this my is my Soto micro Leggett right with micro regulator stove first thing I like to do when I'm waking up in any sort of camp weather you know we're in a campground now or I'm backpacking is to wake up and get water to get warm water go on this goes really quick as opposed to getting on a fire starting a fire get a fire going which we do I mean we like to to cook with but this just gives me hot water in literally you know minutes so I like that I got a MSR cook pot I use this for water really small a stone you know I will cook cook supper in this too or lunch but right now just using it to get water blowing floors going for us probably gonna make a hemlock tea or it's as on Labor has a lot of vitamin C or you can use the vitamin C packet that I like to bring when I'm camping you can see behind me the double nest our sleep setup in this camp we both have been using we've been using our hammocks and it's really important to have a bug net you're not gonna be using a tent for out here it's really humid I think the lows may be around 70 degrees at night still with humidity and so it's really nice to have a bug net so you're not getting bit all night or if you want to get some some rest from the bugs during the day you can crawl in here like I said for two nights having got bitten through the bug net works really well not on the ground you can see like the hammocks hanging off the ground like 10 footprints here we have the fire going right now yeah it's hot out projected high is you know in the mid to upper 90s like I said this is a vacation for us we chose to stay in campground right now and not sort of rough it in the backcountry because for the heat wave really humid and we came up here to relax recharge the batteries which nature does all the time so we wanted to make it a little bit easier on ourselves by coming coming up here and like yeah we could have large boards for wood but this would we have here in bought two two of the big bundles I think that was five dollars for both of them just from one local local person down the road was selling it in the driveway a little you know honor system take what you want leave the money on really hard wood great for burning burns really clean doesn't not put up a lot of smoke this far could use some attention smoking a little bit but this hard wood burns long not a lot of smoke really great we'll do a video probably on cooking on it with the cast iron I showed I think it's basically our camp we're in a campground there are there are facilities I think there's maybe 20 some sites at least in this campground you can see how beautiful this spot is we are specifically and the Pat in the past three days you've been here there's only one other couple in here so it's been completely quiet there's no one else here sort of have this place to ourselves and that's just kind of a theme of this part of pennsylvania's there's not a lot of people up here living and let alone visiting are you know eggs and they've been cheese stuff like that but basically the ins and outs at the camp it's been really comfortable so far the hammocks have been working great sleeping in I said I definitely have a sore back we're sleeping in my hammock I wake up with no back pain at all I just get in real quick see the bug net and it's really comfortable and you might think it might be a little claustrophobic in here because the bug nets not guide out the hammocks not guide out like some systems do but once you get in here if you get used to it and it's not an issue it's not an issue at all it's not an issue you can get comfortable e quick and it's very effective with keeping bugs there's no I haven't yet to get bit through the net just because my you see my legs kind of push them through and touching the net I have not gotten bit in in in the past 2-3 days we have you been sleeping in this and it's really comfortable that's basically the ins and outs of camp where we've been like I said we're gonna get everything cleaned up button up camp and we're gonna we're gonna head out of here and explore the slaughter area